Life After Death !

[LORD NOSE]

Originally Posted by Koolish

i suppose it all boils down to: where is the mind? is the mind the brain or is the mind a separate thing from the brain?

if it is truly separate than the ceasing of brain functions would not affect your existence.

very good

now !

look at it like this

the brain is yours - its 100% functional

the mind is not yours - you hold 10% of it for a time

[LORD NOSE]

Originally Posted by Palehorse

and where do your thoughts go?

your thoughts go onto paper and into a microphone

onto a screen

into someones ears

[LORD NOSE]

Originally Posted by Humanface Huggah

your thoughts are a function of brain activity. we know this because your thoughts are affected by changes in brain chemistry.

like a radio with a short in its wires
you'll get static

[LORD NOSE]

Originally Posted by Palehorse

do u thnk your eyes see?

can you see without your eyes ?

can you use your eyes to smell things ?



we think then spit out thoughts to transfer them to other places
to be used

like cows eat then shit and we use the shit as fertilizer

thoughts expressed are like this

shit

to be used

[LORD NOSE]

Originally Posted by Koolish

supposedly some (If not all) insects don't feel pain.

the idea of the mind and brain being one has always made the most sense to me logically, though i've heard psychedelic experiences defy explanation.

the brain is really distributed throughout the body

[begongo]

If you (impersonal you) wouldn't have any contact with religion or philosophy, would you ever think by yourself that the soul/mind is separate from the brain?
You just think it's separate because other's religions and philosophies stirred confusion and made it look absurd for you to think you simply don't exist after your physical disappearance.
It was all created because of people's fear of nothingness.

[LORD NOSE]

Originally Posted by begongo

If you (impersonal you) wouldn't have any contact with religion or philosophy, would you ever think by yourself that the soul/mind is separate from the brain?
You just think it's separate because other's religions and philosophies stirred confusion and made it look absurd for you to think you simply don't exist after your physical disappearance.
It was all created because of people's fear of nothingness.

personally

religion/philosophy didn't influence me to ask the question
not directly any way

the light/sound energy that feed the mind comes from outside the mind

its really much more simple than people wanna make it

those with a robot mentality wanna get all scientifically difficult when its not called for

Originally Posted by begongo

If you (impersonal you) wouldn't have any contact with religion or philosophy, would you ever think by yourself that the soul/mind is separate from the brain?
You just think it's separate because other's religions and philosophies stirred confusion and made it look absurd for you to think you simply don't exist after your physical disappearance.
It was all created because of people's fear of nothingness.

i think that if we were isolated from science religion and philosophy and left to ponder our existance, i think the longest jump would be to the scientific theory. to believe that what "makes you you" is nothing more than a collection of electrical impulses and chemical reactions is absurd.

[Cee Oh Vee]

Originally Posted by Koolish

i remember a while back i read an article on the internet where a lady said she'd asked her 2 year old daughter if she could remember what it was like being in the womb, her daughter replied "it was like being in a picture frame but no one was in it." or something like that.

SHIIIIIIT, I'm 14 'n I cant build similes like that! Damn.

[Cthulhu]

Originally Posted by Koolish

i remember a while back i read an article on the internet where a lady said she'd asked her 2 year old daughter if she could remember what it was like being in the womb, her daughter replied "it was like being in a picture frame but no one was in it." or something like that.

3 problems with this.

1.) It sounds way too good to be true. It sounds very much like a glurge, a feel-good urban legend.

But more importantly,

2.) Even if this is true, are we forgetting that a FUCKING CHILD is saying this? I know everyone likes to think that the innocence of children is something divine and that their whimisical insights are evidence of something higher and more important and it helps us get through the day, but being realistic............... There's a reason why it's so hard to get reliable legal testimonies from children, main reasons being that children are pretty much wired to please adult authority figures (so it's very easy to accidentally - or purposely - lead them to a conclusion) and they sometimes don't have a clear distinction between reality and their own imaginations.

3.) I don't believe for a second that anyone can remember anything from before their birth. A zygote has no fucking brain. Infants don't even have long-term memory.

[LORD NOSE]

you are a very frustrated young man or woman


are you on you period Cthulhu ?

[Koolish]

i used to mess around with this girl who said she could remember back to the age of 1.

[Cthulhu]

Originally Posted by SUNNY WINTERS

you are a very frustrated young man or woman


are you on you period Cthulhu ?

You seem to think I'm foaming at the mouth whenever I make my posts. I'm just rather cynical and caustic whenever I make replies to things I find incredibly dumb.

[Olive Oil Goombah]

sunny is just an instigator. Dont pay any mind to eggplant parmigiano

[Koolish]

"It is only those who do not seek after life that excel in making life valuable."
-Lao Tzu